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Found an amazing course enrollment, it's from Class Creatives. They have a lot of courses including for Zbrush, Maya and Unreal. For anyone interested. They have from beginners to advanced. Also, if you have a favourite online course please share it here.

Still watching videos speaking about the softwares. I'll probably start to learn Zbrush. Then maybe do rigging and animation in Maya. I want to expand my scope and not only rely on Blender.

Not true. A 9-5 job doesn't even get close to your sleeping window. Is the fact that you and most people won't take seriously what the summary I wrote says. Whowever, there are jobs that will inherently prevent good sleep for the employees. Like a nurse on duty or a night-time shift police officer. They then, almost for sure, will rely on estimulants just to function. But again, sleep deprivation is ingrained in society and somehow thought of as a professional attitude. The less you sleep, the more professional you're considered. The more you sleep, the more lazy and lack of moral you're considered. Sleeping good is actually not hard. The hard part is going against the norms of society which is by default a messed up sleep schedule.

I DMd him and responded vey quickly. This it what he said: "...To give you a brief overview of my workflow - I create all 3D scenes in Blender. Blender is open source, free and gives you pretty much everything you need to create great scenes. It can be a bit frustrating at times as it's not the easiest program, but once you get past the first 2 weeks you'll get into it . I do the editing in Adobe Premiere. I edit the audio files in premiere and Audition. I create many of my audio files myself with my small recording device and then edit them later in the program. However, I obtain many audio files from various online libraries or sample packs. But for the beginning I would recommend you to start in Blender. It's free and there are lots of tutorials on YT."

They say Houdini is very powerful but has a steep learning curve. I like the procedural aspect of 3D art, which can be done in Blender too, but aparently Houdini is best. I did an online course on geometry nodes in Blender. But again, I did not push through so it's like going to the gym once a month. I am passionate about character design. Probably with that alone I'll spend a lot of time getting good at it. Which encompases sketching, sculpting, modeling, rigging, and finally animation. I can do that on Blender. Then I can create ambients and scenery in Houdini, where I can import the characters I made in Blender. Do youo think is a good workflow? Thanks, I am thinking through your answers.

I'll consider this. Building a showreel as my portfolio is a good way of getting started and knowing what steps to take next. I'll probably stick to Blender since the workflow there is well designed... On the other hand I don't want to limit myself with just one tool.

You're pushing me enough to take some action, that's good. I didn't know about Nuke, only used Blender. But I always wondered what software you use if you want to merge real life footage with CGI

I'll desagree with you in this... we yearn for something bigger. However I do find confusing the Crypto world. Is it what the El Salvador goverment is doing, buying cryptos a good or a bad move?

A boring job for me

Probably because your own mind is like an asylum Seriously, there are gems here.

Interest plus discipline. Is the thirst for deeply understanding a thing that makes me read through when I don't feel like reading. Plus, there are moments in my life where I read more. In other moments I read nothing.

Good question, probably the only good question to be asked here... Should I start with some answers: -Not ignoring people talking directly at you. You post, you are responsible for the comments you get. Cause' at the end of the day you're here because you enjoy interacting with random people and getting new insights. Which opens the next answer: -Facing fears, facing truth. In this case, facing to read comments when you are afraid of the responses. -Making the commitment/having the intention to only post from an intelligent perspective. -Recognizing that you are as evil as I am and stoping the hypocrisy of only judging, critizising and diminishing the other. (Too general, but applies in this context) -Mantaining the original thread's intention. Only post comments that correlate to the topic. Do this and you are automatically showing love. Those are a few answer but I encourage the readers to go further. There are hundreds of good answers.

Lol

Nice! Matthew's writing style is very easy going. There sure is an answer. Just stumbled uppon this video today, it may give you a hint.

There's hope for y'all trying to sleep earlier...

Not too quick . It would be pretty easy to just decide to go to bed early and falling asleep. Ever wondered why not everyone does just that? As I explained before there are a lot of factors that will determine what time you go to bed. Most of which can mascarade as insomnia but in reality are external, fixable elements.

@Sandroew Yes, but sadly most people will never apply the techniques. Unless you're willing to stop eating more than 3 hours before bed, eliminating or regulating exposure to light 90 minutes before bed, not drinking alcohol, not smoking, then you're gonna have a bad time falling asleep, and what is worst, you're not gonna have a profound sleep. It is explained in great detail in the book and plenty of videos on YouTube aswell, I recommend checking Braian Johnson channel, he basically mastered sleeping. Its up to you. I don't care if you choose to sleep bad, although it will be great if you don't. Caffeine disrupts sleep, alcohol disrupts sleep, digestion disrupts it, light greater than 5lux does the job too. A room too hot will do it, approximately you need it to be ~18°C depending on genetics. Thats because in deep sleep stages your body temperature plummets about one degree celcius. As you can appreciate, there is not a single tip but rather a fairly complex understanding to have to tame good sleep. But the reward is by far worth the effort.

I mean, if you're a parent and just had a baby then I get it. But in most cases you're just being ignorant... Like if you blame your nighttime shift then that's your own foolishness.

For me going to univerity/buying a course is the perfect blend of being surrounded by people mastering what you want to master, plus being held accountable to some degree. But more fundamental than that is your inner game. Like, can you get satisfaction out of learning? Can you push away short-term gratifications to make space for a more mature way of appreciating life through learning? Going or not to the university is just part of your own plan. Maybe you need to learn other things before getting the most out of university.

It looks good, I should get one of those. And our unhealthy society determines what time your boss tells you, out of ignorance, to get up.

Just in the first 5 minutes he talks about how he almost died out of his hedonous lifestyle, lol! Actually a good talk to study for us who opt for a healthier path. Charging 80 bucks a month for a list of exercises is INSANE.

There are interesting studies made on sleep deprivation. One of them being that after 24 hours without sleep, you are impaired at the level of a drunk driver. Accidents caused by lack of sleep are as frequent, if not more, than the ones caused by alcoholization behind the wheels. The problem is, you don't need to fall asleep for 1 or 2 minutes. A micro-sleep will be suficient to cause an accident, which are the ones where you only loose consciousness per 1 or 2 seconds. Imagine a kid crosses the street at that moment, you will full on hit him, not even being able to react as a drunk driver would, slowly but reacting at least.

Hi. Good post. Also hope you read this. You should revisit, integrate more, the basis of value providing and money made the right way. Invest in more books that would help you in bringing to life your new ideas. Make'em come to mind, you have the experience... It seems you're developing a lot of skills that could easily reinforce each other to create a holistic business. On the other hand, maybe what it is holding you back is you worry about money when you should be worrying on how to give the best value to people. Disclaimer: I am not making money, which is holding me back, but I have the intuition that not worrying on how to make the money will actually be better and actually, counterintuitively, make a good revenue for me. I say that because even though I am not making money I am being able to eat and pay a rent. Sry I don't want to talk bs either... But somewhere else I read that money is just a way people have to say thank you to you. Other way is just a hug, for example. You make something for other person and in turn they hug you; you've helped them. You're on a good spot because you have the capital to start a business, and you don't even need all of it. So a good question to ask is what kind of space you want to create for people, such that they will want to come to you an actually choose you over other options. Another way of thinking it is as follows (Also I read it somewhere else): When we lived on tribes, people didn't pay you to help them, you will just do it naturally because it was a way of thriving and maximizing survival for the group. If you didn't do that, things would simply spiral out of control. There was an unspoken code where each participant could count on each other. If the situation was so that a partner was starving, you would just share a piece of meat with them, and thus bring them to life. In a certain way that doesn't happen anymore but we still are psychologically wired that way...

Reading. Although it seems not related, reading forces you to retaing pieces of information to make sense of sentences. Its one of the best training for high quality speech, because it impacts your speech. Just don't pick a book for kids.